CORPOEATIONS. 839

lamps furnished by the persons or electrical corporations generating and
selling electric current, and by order to require said natural or other gas
to equal the standards so fixed by it, and to prescribe from time to time the
reasonable minimum and maximum pressure at which said natural or other
gas shall be delivered by said persons or gas corporations.

For the purpose of determining whether said natural or other gas for
lighting, heating or power purposes conforms to said standards of illumin-
ating power, heating power, purity and pressure, and for the purpose of
determining whether the efficiency of the electric supply -system and the
current supplied and the lamps furnished conforms with the orders issued
by the Commission, the Commission shall have power of its own motion to
examine and investigate the plants and methods employed in manufactur-
ing, distributing, delivering and supplying said natural or other gas or
electricity, and shall have access through its members or persons employed
and authorized by it to make such examinations and investigations, to all
parts of the manufacturing or other plants so owned, used or operated for
the manufacture, transmission, distribution or delivery of said natural or
other gas or electricity by any such person, gas or electrical corporation.
Any employee or agent of the Commission who divulges any fact or
information which may come to his knowledge during the course of any
such inspection or examination, except in so far as he may be directed by
the Commission or by a court or judge thereof or authorized by law, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Have full and plenary power to value the plant, property, appurtenances,
assets and franchises of such persons or corporation.

Have power, in its discretion, to prescribe uniform methods of keeping
accounts, records and books, to be observed by the persons, gas corporations
and electrical corporations engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribu-
tion of gas and electricity for light, heat or power.

Examine all persons and corporations under its supervision, keep in-
formed as to the methods employed by them in the transaction of their
business and see that their property is maintained and operated for the
security and accommodation of the public and in compliance with the
provisions of the law and of their franchises and charters.

Require every person and corporation under its supervision to submit to
it an annual report, verified by the oath of the president, treasurer or general
manager thereof, showing in detail: (1) The amount of its authorized
capital stock and the amount thereof issued and outstanding; (2) the
amount of its authorized bonded indebtedness and the amount of its bonds
and other forms of evidence of indebtedness issued and outstanding; (3)
its receipts and expenditures during the preceding year; (4) the amount
paid as dividends upon its stock and as interest upon its bonds; (5) the
names and amounts paid as salary to each officer, and the amounts paid as
wages to its employees; (6) the location of its plant or plants and system,
with a full description of its property and franchises, stating in detail how
each franchise stated to be owned was acquired, and (7) such other facts
pertaining to the operating and maintenance of the plant and system and
the affairs of such persons or corporations as may be required by the Com-